{"id":8297,"date":"2013-12-09T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/09\/is-obamacare-a-derogatory-word\/"},"modified":"2013-12-09T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T10:46:08","slug":"is-obamacare-a-derogatory-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/09\/is-obamacare-a-derogatory-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ‘Obamacare’ a Derogatory Word?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some object to the popular 'Obamacare' label given that the official title of the law is 'Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act' or, as commonly truncated, 'Affordable Care Act.' But there is a good reason to favor the popular moniker: it is descriptive where the other two labels are evaluative, expressing as they do a pro attitude toward the bill.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Will the law really protect patients?  That is an evaluative judgment based on projections many regard as flimsy.  Will the law really make health care affordable?  And for whom? Will care mandated for all be readily available and of high quality?  <\/span><\/p>\n

Everybody wants affordable and readily available health care of high quality for the greatest number possible.  Note the three qualifiers:  affordable<\/em>, readily available<\/em>, high quality<\/em>.  The question is how best to attain this end.  The 'Affordable Care Act' label begs the question as to whether or not Obama's bill will achieve the desired end.  'Obamacare' does not.  It is, if not all that descriptive, at least evaluatively neutral.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Obama's proposal were  referred to as "Socialized Medicine Health Care Act' or 'Another Step Toward the Nanny State Act,'  people would protest the negative evaluations  embedded in the titles.  Titles of bills ought to be neutral.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, if you are rational, you will not find anything derogatory about 'Obamacare.'  But liberals are not known for being particularly rational.  But they are<\/em> known for playing the the race card in spades.  (See my Race category<\/a> for plenty of examples.)  And if the liberal in questions hosts for that toxic leftist outlet, MSNBC, then 'morally obnoxious' can be added to the description.  So the following<\/a> comes as no particular surprise:<\/span><\/p>\n

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MSNBC<\/a> host Melissa Harris-Perry<\/a> went off on a tangent in a recent broadcast, ranting about the racist overtones of a word that\u2019s been used for years by both sides of the political aisle \u2014 Obamacare.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI want to talk today about a controversial word,\u201d she said, as FrontPageMag.com reported. \u201cIt\u2019s a word that\u2019s been with us for years. And like it or not, it\u2019s indelibly printed in the pages of America history. A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean. The word was conceived by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man \u2014 to render him inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Slanderous and delusional.<\/span><\/p>\n

So the question arises once again: Can one be both a liberal and a decent and sane human being?  Or is scumbaggery as it were inscribed into the very marrow of the contemporary liberal?  Or perhaps it is more like this:  once liberalism infects a person's mind, the decency that was there is flushed out.  Need an example?  Try Martin Bashir on for size.  Or Keith Olbermann<\/a>. (At the end of the hyperlink I defend Dennis Prager against  Olbermann's vicious and stupid attack.)
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I suppose I should say at least one good thing about MSNBC:  both of the these leftist scumbags got  the axe.
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By the way, 'scumbag' is a derogatory word and is intended as such.  But you knew that already.  It is important to give leftists a taste of their own medicine in the perhaps forlorn hope that someday, just maybe, they will see the error of their ways and learn how to be civil.  Civility is for the civil, not for assholes.  'Assholicity' for assholes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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